Package of tea-bags and the like



y 1936- H. COOPER PACKAGE OF TEA BAGS AND THE LIKE Filed Dec. 3, 1934 v INVENTOR.

E7? M1! /V C O OPER TTORNEY Patented May 26, 1936 UNITED STATES PACKAGE OF TEA-BAGS AND THE LIKE Herman Cooper, Brooklyn, N. Y., assignor to Cooper Tea Packet Company, Brooklyn, N. Y.,

a corporation of New York Application December 3, 1934, Serial No. 755,745

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This invention relates to packages of tea-bags and provides improvements therein.

' This invention provides a package comprising a box having narrow marginal portions at its 6 top leaving a large opening or openings through which substantially all of the tea-bags packed within the box are exposed to view, the manner of packing being such that the tea-bags are retained in the box by the interaction of the tea-bags on one another and the conjoint action of the marginal portions of the box which overlie portions of the tea-bags adjacent the sides of the box, and present and retain an orderly, and hence attractive, appearance through the opening in the box.

Two embodiments of the invention are illustrated in the accompanying drawing, wherein;

Fig. 1 is a top plan view of the package, with v one of the end-flaps of the box extended to show the construction.

Fig. 2 is a section on the line IIII Fig. 1.

Figs. 3 and 4 are respectively a top plan view and a side view of a representative form of teabag.

Fig. 5 is a top plan view ment.

Referring to said drawing, numeral Ill designates a box having a capacity and dimensions for containing a given number of filled tea-bags I2 overlapped and inter-leaved as hereinafter described. The height of the box is about equal to the height of the contents of tea-bags arranged as described. The top of the box has an opening or openings I4 therein of an area al- 36 most equal to that of the top of the box, the top of the box having marginal projections I6 which overhang to a limited extent the space within the box adjacent the sides of the box. The area of the opening or openings I4 is such as to expose to view substantially the entire contents of the box.

An example of a tea-bag is illustrated in Figs. 3 and 4. The tea-bag is preferably of the type in which the material forming the envelope is 45 joined at its edges or marginal portions ill by stitches 20, and is shaped at its central portion 22 to form domes or dish-like portions projecting in opposite directions and providing a space between the central portions for containing the 50 contents of dried tea-leaves or the like. The teabags may be formed of perforated cellophane, moisture repellent paper, or fabric, the tea-bags being illustrated as formed of perforated material.

55 The tea-bags are arranged within the box in of a second embodirows A. B, Fig. 1, A, B, C, Fig. 5, etc. The teabags A A, A=,A* in a row overlap one another. The tea-bags B B B, B and C C C C, etc. in the other rows similarly overlap one another. Moreover the tea-bags in the rows A B, A B C, etc. are also lappedor interleaved; that is, for example, the bag-B laps the bag A the bag A laps the bag B (bag 13 is also lapped by bag B the bag B laps the bag A (bag A is also lapped by bag A and so on. The bags at the tops and bottoms of the rows are lapped or overhung by the marginal portions 16 of the box and the bags in the rows adjacent the sides of the box are also lapped or overhung by the marginal portion l6. That is, the bags in rows A and B, Fig. 1 for example, are lapped at their sides adjacent the sides of the box by the marginal portion l6, and the bags A and A and B and B, at the head and foot of rows A B, Fig. 1 are also lapped by the marginal portion i6. In Fig. 5 the sides of the bags adjacent the sides of the box in rows A and C, and the bags A A and C C, at the head and foot of rows A and C, are lapped by the marginal portions l6 of the'box.

The arrangement of the bags as described, with the bags in the rows lapping one another, with the bags in adjacent rows also overlapping one another or interleaved, and the lapping of the rows by the marginal portion iii of the box, provides a remarkably effective cohesion or interlocking of the tea-bags, with the result that the box and its contents may be subjected to considerable shaking and jostling, and may even be inverted, without the tea-bags falling out or being disarranged.

If desired, and where there are a considerable number of rows of tea-bags within the box, a strip or strips 24 may be provided at suitable intervals across the opening or openings ll of the box. The package has a sales-attraction value, as the customer is enabled to see at a glance the entire contents of the box, and also to observe the contents in a neat and orderly arrangement.

The packed box may be'enclosed in a transparent or other wrapper, if desired.

-The invention may receive other embodiments than those herein specifically illustrated and described.

What is claimed is:

1. A package comprising an open top box having marginal projections overhanging the space within the box, a plurality of filled tea-bags in said box, each of said tea-bags being smaller than the opening in the box between said marginal 55 projections, said tea-bags being arranged so as 2. A package according to claim 1, wherein said to overlap one another in rows, and tea-bags in tea-bags have domed central portions containadjacent rows being arranged so as to also overing the filling, the domed portions in said lapped lap one another, and the portions of the tea-bags tea-bags all lying close together.

adjacent the sides of the box being arranged Y under said overhanging marginal projections. HERMAN COOPER. 

